Life is interconnected and so are the topics on this blog. It might be cooking and gardening one day, yoga the next, knitting and sewing, or hiking and then bird watching followed by recycling or composting. They are the parts that bring humble joy to my life of voluntary simplicity in Montana.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Freak Spinach Leaves

While harvesting greens last week Matt found a plant that had been putting out some total freak leaves. They'd folded up into a complete tube--the top of the leaf was the inside and the bottom of the leaf was the outside. They looked like tulips! Well, except for the fact it was one continuous leaf tube rather than a series of overlapping petals. It was cool. And weird. I've always found nature's oddities like this most interesting. Makes me wonder...